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5 Biggest Waste Producer Cities in Indonesia (2017)

Estimated Waste Production Transported Waste
City per day (m3) Presentation (volume per day)

Surabaya 9.896, 78 54,84 %
Jakarta 7.164, 53 95,92 %

Makassar 6.485 95 %
Semarang 5.163, 72 88 %
Denpasar 3.657 89,59 %

Data source : Infographic/Tommy.K.R
Indonesia’s Environmental Statistic 2018

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eral programs in order to reduce the the initiatives from our community at in foreign countries will start from the
waste from its sources, namely waste first (in the Environment Service office households. Japan is one of the coun-
banks, which had their 1,967 units and the offices around Pemprov DKI tries which apply the method. This so-
on set now. Pemprov also released areas). We had to model it first before called Land of The Rising Sun coun-
“Sampah Tanggung Jawab Bersama”, we invite the communities to partici- try has long forgotten the method of
a shared responsibility on waste man- pate,” he said. transporting trash from one city to an-
agement program which has been ap- If we take a look at the result of other, presumably since 1970s.
plied to 22 RWs and being replicated to BPS 2014 research, our communities Japan has been carried out the re-
2,927 RWs throughout Jakarta. in Indonesia and partially Jakarta is duce, reuse, recycle (3R) systems in
Various law regulations are made lacking the awareness to sort waste. their communities and specifically in
to support the program. The Gover- The research showed that 88.65% of the neighborhood units (RTs). They
nor released Regulation No.108/2019 the residents still disposed their gar- also set a strict regulation of waste
about the Policy and Strategy of bages without sorting them. While management in their RTs, which can
Households Waste Management, also 7.95% have done the sorting, only have their own method to sort waste.
and Instruction (Gubernatorial In- 3.39% of them had their waste sorted For example, they would set Mondays
struction—Ingub) No.107/2019 about and reused. as the day to dispose organic waste,
The Waste Reduction and Sorting in The result of National Social Eco- Tuesdays for cans and so on. They
Jakarta Provincial Government Area. nomic Survey of Social Resilience also need to name their trash bags, in
The newest one is the Gubernatorial Module in 2017 also showed the sim- order to ease the returning process if
Regulation No.149/2019 about the Ob- ilar pattern. Only 8.7% of the house- they dont dispose the waste accord-
ligation of The Use of Environmentally holds would bring their own shopping ing to the agreed schedule. Cities in
Friendly Bags. bags in order to reduce waste. Japan also had their own incinerators
Andono realized that the ultimate or waste processing facilities, so the
challenge was to invite the communi- To Learn from the Japanese waste coming from one district can no
ties to participate in the waste man- longer cross another district.
agement process. “Hence we started The process of waste management . yen/nis